Senate Panel Subpoenas Ballots in New Hampshire

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WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 (AP)—The Senate Rules Committee voted today to subpoena all paper ballots in the contested New Hampshire Senate election end have them brought here for safekeeping.

The transfer of the ballots will be under the supervision of United States marshals, who will also be rrquested to take responsibility for the security of voting machines.

The machines are not to be brought here lest the vote totals on them be changed by bouncy truck ride.

The steps to safeguard the ballots were taken as the committee remained unable to agree on how to go about trying to determine whether the Republican candidate, Louis C. Wyman, or the Democrat, John A. Durkin, won last November's election.

He said that the committee either showed recount all the ballots or else call for a new election.

Mr. Durkin has opposed a re count and one argument he has raised against it is what he called the serious problem of the security of most of the ballots.

Senator Robert C. Byrd, of West Virginia, the deputy Democratic leader, made the motion to have all the paper ballots brought here and to have the voting machines safeguarded.

About 185,000 of the more than 223,000 ballots cast are locked in the National Guard armory in Concord, N.H. Another 3,500—contested by either Mr. Wyman or Mr. Durkin—are in the evidence vault of the state police. Only 28 of the state's 299 precincts used voting machines in the last election and Attorney General Warren B Rudman estimated that they held 34,000 votes.